We've decided to push Carter's bed time back by a couple of hours which is proving to be much more difficult than we thought. We aren't just doing this to torture him, as of now he goes to bed between 6:00pm and 8:00pm but it's been getting closer to 6 everyday. Well, if I get home at 5:00pm or 5:30pm I would only have a half hour with my little guy and that's just not enough. So we've been gradually trying to push bedtime back. Well, last night proved that it's not easy. He slept a little in church but when we got home, rather than napping, he just played in his crib for a few hours and then it got too late for a nap so we kept him up.... or tried to at least. He ended up falling asleep in Dave's lap. So we decided to put him to bed but he woke up at 10:00pm and just SCREAMED!!!!! We sang to him, rocked him, turned on his nightlight and basically tried everything that usually works but nothing did so we decided to let him play with one of his favorite toys, Larry, and he ended up falling asleep with him. Now it's nap time and he is doing the same screaming thing. He rarely does this so I figure it is because we are messing with his sleep. Wish us luck on changing his schedule because I think we are going to need it!
UPDATE: I took him out and gave him a little bit of rice cereal (he wasn't really hungry but I think it settles his tummy) and then put him back in his crib and got through 2 verses of Silent Night before his eyes were closed. Scarlett got here 5 minutes later and made it through all 3 verses of Silent Night and 1 verse of I am a Child of God before falling asleep. Ahhh, 2 sleeping babies.
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